I see no SEA but i don't care as much. We get NA access anyway! so it's like we play EU players too! I guess it's fair, since I assume linking with KOR TW would be the best link up for us. Though I believe I'd be pushed way down to bronze if that ever occurred (and probably most of the plat/dias)

edit: oh wait I thought it was going to be NA LA + EU RU together. lol my mistake.

well...I guess it still makes sense since SEA+ANZ are a lot of countries already. and like I said, we get NA access anyway.

onedayclose

United States1145 Posts

July 11 2011 19:21 GMT

#203

Hopefully the language barrier between the new links wont be an issue. GG

RoboBob

United States798 Posts

July 11 2011 19:25 GMT

#204

Interesting. I wonder if the affected servers are happy with this or not. It will make GM tougher because its limited to 200. But it seems like every merge is from a weaker server to a tougher server. I'm guessing that the side that gets their MMR reset will suffer about 1 rank drop.

KR/Taiwan might be different though. Sure KR is tough but Taiwan has a lot of pro players. KR GM is going to be even more difficult.

theBOOCH

United States832 Posts

July 11 2011 19:25 GMT

#205

Cool. This should be fun :D

hmunkey

United Kingdom1973 Posts

July 11 2011 19:27 GMT

#206

Isn't this because some of those servers were barren wastelands with no players making the MMR stems useless?

Philo

United States337 Posts

July 11 2011 19:29 GMT

#207

I had such higher hopes when I saw this thread T_T
Anyways its still cool, hope its easier to get a TW account than it is a KR one.

DeathSenders

Brazil15 Posts

July 11 2011 19:29 GMT

#208

For those who are saying that probably will get some lag with Brazilians on the server, it will not change anything. The LA server is already at the same location of NA server and we dont have any lag.

The linking will be nice for LA players, since we will be able to find games faster than now.

TheRealPaciFist

United States1049 Posts

July 11 2011 19:32 GMT

#209

Fantastic news! I've heard horror stories about LA players having to wait 15 minutes for every match

Gamegene

United States8308 Posts

July 11 2011 19:33 GMT

#210

Gotta wonder if players like Sen will be affected (positively) by this change at all.

I mean if he's practicing on the Korean server all the time, will this patch help his latency?
Anyone know?

Sanguinarius

United States3427 Posts

July 11 2011 19:34 GMT

#211

Excellent, this is the first step towards a world ladder. However, I dont think this will adversely affect any of us.

KayZ

Australia144 Posts

July 11 2011 19:36 GMT

#212

Anyone know how to buy a TW account? O.o

Tur

Brazil263 Posts

July 11 2011 19:39 GMT

#213

People worried about Brazillian BM, I don't get BMed as often playing on LA as I do playing on NA.

We're famous to be the biggest trolls ever on MMORPGs (check some wow servers like Warsong or Gurubashi and you will see it). But atleast until now most people on LA is very mature, I hope we keep it that way.

sVnteen

Germany2238 Posts

July 11 2011 19:40 GMT

#214

cool
maybe some new faces appear then

schaf

Germany1326 Posts

July 11 2011 19:42 GMT

#215

awesome. now i can get crushed by russians

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rivera

Chile83 Posts

July 11 2011 19:47 GMT

#216

so what happens to the ppl who have both LA and NA games on the same account? im guessing we'll get a server change for one of the regions but im not sure... does anyone know?

Cloud9157

United States2968 Posts

July 11 2011 19:47 GMT

#217

LA got nothin on NA. We too good.

Nah, but this should benefit all of us. Glad Blizzard was cool enough to do this.

duckTemplar

United States204 Posts

July 11 2011 19:50 GMT

#218

Anyword for the China server?

Vapaach

Finland994 Posts

July 11 2011 19:53 GMT

#219

So now, getting to GM will be even harder than before ^^

PartyBiscuit

Canada4525 Posts

July 11 2011 19:59 GMT

#220

On July 12 2011 01:23 Wr3k wrote:
Oh god... it begins.

BR?.. BR! give wins plz! HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE.

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Seriously though, as long as this doesn't cause lag issues I don't see an issue with it.

I'm not normally one to propagate stereotypes and such, but that has been the bane of much of my mmorpg experience.

Either way, it'll be nice to get more people to play against for 1v1.